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Parish Priest: Fr Andrew Eaton Ph: 0249559544 Email: [email protected] Ordinand: Mr Phil Morris Children’s & Families Ministry: Matthew Couch Secretary: Sandra Morris Wardens: Ian Morante, Gail Woodcock, Lorraine Elbourne
Address: Cnr Metcalf & Brown Street Postal: 11 Brown Street Wallsend NSW 2287 Website: www.stlukeswallsend.church Facebook: @St.LukesWallsend
Looking Ahead
November
Thur 16 9.30am Advent Study begins Sat 25 Bishop’s Election Synod
December
Sun 3 Advent 1
Sun 10 Advent 2 5pm Carols on Lawn Sun 24 Advent 4 9am Mass Christmas Eve 5pm All-Ages Christmas Service
with Carols & Nativity 11.00pm Carols 11.30pm Midnight Mass Christmas Day
9.00 am Christmas Day Mass
Eva & William Ralph Thomas James Rae Nowlan Kevin Arthur Jnr David J Scott Craig Chrystie Gladys Tredinnick Carol Caban Arthur Booth Leanne Walker Sarah Burnett Robert Herd Andrew Ryan Nellie Davis Edwin Woolfrey
13 Mon Charles Simeon
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14 Tues Samuel Seabury 10am Jesmond Grove 12pm Deanery (Fr A) 3.30pm Hunter Interfaith Network
(Fr A)
5pm Evening prayer
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15 Wed 9am Mass 10am Sunbeams Playgroup 10am Dorcas Craft Group 5pm Evening prayer
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Rector’s Day Off
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THE DIARY - THIS WEEK YEAR’S MIND
PARISH DIRECTORY
Prayer for Synod
Almighty and everliving God, give wisdom and understanding to the members of the Synod of this Diocese. Teach us in all things to seek first your honour and glory. May we perceive what is right, have courage to pursue it and grace to ac-complish it; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
12th November 2017
Saint Luke’s Wallsend Est. 1867
32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Hymns Opening Gradual Offertory Final
7.30 TiS 153 TiS 430 TiS 499 TiS 609 9.30 All on the screen
From the Irish Dominicans at www.goodnews.ie
There is a church in Cork that has carvings of the wise and foolish bridesmaids
at the entrance - the wise at one side and the foolish at the other. I'm afraid
the foolish ones look much more interesting that the others! They look more
individual, more alive, more human. In the Gospel story too the wise brides-
maids are far less likeable characters than the foolish! If you were really stuck,
you would be more likely to get help from one of those foolish bridesmaids
than from any of the wise ones. Nobody loves a little ‘Miss Perfect’ (unless it
be her mother!). And these Miss Perfects refused help when they were asked
for it. Was Jesus having a bad day when he composed this story?
We have to remember that a parable is not an allegory. An allegory is a story
that has many points of reference to human experience - many punch-lines,
so to speak - but a parable has only one. The development of the story itself
has only one purpose in a parable: to add strength to the one point. For that
reason, the refusal of the wise to help the foolish is not being held up as model
behaviour for us. Jesus himself had a partiality for “the weak, the sick, the
wounded, the strayed, the lost” (See Ezech 34, as the model for his ‘lost sheep’
parable). The one point of this parable of the bridesmaids is readiness. Jesus
was continuously telling people to wake up and stay awake.
But to come back to those ten bridesmaids.... Why do the wise ones seem so
boring? And the foolish ones so much more interesting? Maybe the reason
is this: while our foolishness is our own, our wisdom is usually borrowed; our
wisdom is all too often a pretence, an imitation, and it doesn’t fit us as well as
our foolishness! We care little for goodness and wisdom; in truth we are bored
by them, and it shows in our face!
Can wisdom be mine, really mine? Are the best things really for me?
Or can I only look on and imitate, like a football supporter wearing the colours
of ‘my’ team? Goodness was obligatory at home and in school, and so from
earliest childhood we may have seen it as ‘what other people want’.
Evil then became identified with what we wanted ourselves! We may never
really have interiorised goodness. We may then feel that it must be the same
with everyone else: that goodness is always false. That would be the final
caricature of Christian education. We must face the fact that many children
now grow to adulthood with nothing more than this. Wisdom is to the soul
what health is to the body. It is of no use unless it is yours. Information can
be anybody’s: you can just google it. But wisdom has to be your own. ‘Sapor’,
a Latin word that means ‘taste’, was used to describe the gift of wisdom:
wisdom is ‘sapida scientia’, tasted knowledge. Not knowledge in a book or in
someone else’s head, but in me: in my mouth, so to speak, in my heart, living
through me. I heard someone say, “English is only our second language.
What we are is our first language!”
GOSPEL REFLECTION
Please pass on to Fr Andrew the names of those known to us who are in need of prayers, a home or hospital visit, or other pastoral care.
End -of -Year Notice to all groups
As November will usually be your last meeting for the year, please remember that all Reports and any Financial reports need to be handed in before the end of the year to the Parish Secretary. thanks
HAVE YOUR SAY
Our Property Development Sub-Committee needs
your help.
Please list everything you think we might need in a new church hall/office space/garden, should we
decide to develop our land. Nothing is too small or inconsequential
to note !
Wine & Dinner Evening for families on Sat 25th Nov from 5.30 pm
A Social Evening
for Families & their Children
Bring a dish to share
Children will be supervised, so you can relax and enjoy the night.
See Matthew Couch 0415 173 868
Combined Parish End-of-Year Christmas Dinner
Monday 27th November 2017 @ Wallsend Diggers
D-Bar & Grill
6pm for a 6.30pm start
Everyone is welcome to come along and enjoy fun & fellowship together in
one celebration.
Place your names and number of people attending on the clipboard at rear of the
church by 19/11/17. For more info phone Elizabeth Fratus
49558189 or Shirley Melvelle 49568609
Noticeboard
PARISH QUARTERLY MAGAZINE
Starting with a Christmas
issue in December St Luke’s
will put out a quarterly magazine.
Articles will cover topics on theology,
liturgy, spirituality, and prayer.
We will have book reviews, profiles of
parishioners, poetry, art, and up to date
news and activities in the parish.
If you would like to contribute to the
magazine, assist with the editing,
printing or production, please email or
speak with Fr Andrew. We will also be
happy to receive suggestions for the
name of the magazine, so be creative
and email those in to Fr Andrew as well
to:
Mission to Seafarers This year Missions to Seafarers are
aiming to prepare 1000 Christmas
Care packs. Donations will need to
be delivered to the Mission by 6 Dec
see insert for some suggestions
~ Memorial ~
A thank-offering has been received in loving memory of Eva & William Ralph, (obit 15th & 4th November)
a gift of Lola Deith, for her mum & dad